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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (3): 599–600.
Published: 01 July 2014
...Sarahh Scher Inka Human Sacrifice and Mountain Worship: Strategies for Empire Unification . By Besom Thomas . ( Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2013 . xvii + 309 pp., acknowledgments, prologue, introduction, epilogue, appendixes, notes, glossary, references, index...
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in The Sixteenth-Century Zinacantepec Census: Between Ethnohistory and Historical Demography
> Ethnohistory
Published: 01 April 2020
Figure 1. Human sacrifice by the Temple of Huitzilopochtli, the Aztec god of war. The picture is accompanied by an anonymous alphabetical annotation providing historical detail. Source: BNF, fonds mexicains, 30 ( Codex Telleriano-Remensis 1995 : fol. 38v.).
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Published: 01 April 2019
Figure 7. Codex Tudela, “Priest Performing Sacrifice.” Courtesy Museo de América.
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (2): 496–497.
Published: 01 April 2005
... and Sacrifice. By Dennis
Tedlock. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. x + 361 pp., introduc-
tion, maps, illustrations, glossary, notes, bibliography. $35.00 cloth.)
Byron Ellsworth Hamann, University of Chicago
The Rabinal Achi (Man of Rabinal) is a Maya play dramatizing the capture...
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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (4): 765–767.
Published: 01 October 2006
...Daniel Morley Johnson Cannibal Talk: The Man-Eating Myth and Human Sacrifice in the South Seas. By Gananath Obeyesekere. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. xx + 320 pp., preface, maps, illustrations, index. $21.95 paper, $55.00 cloth.) American Society for Ethnohistory 2006...
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Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (1): 271–273.
Published: 01 January 2000
... of 281 both dilemmas squarely into focus and shows that no one—from Conser-
vative elites to Sandinista cadre, from solidary analysts to the community
members themselves—has escaped their effects.
Small Sacrifices: Religious...
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Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (2): 223–244.
Published: 01 April 2007
...Seth Mallios Historical narratives describing the demise of a sixteenth-century Jesuit mission on the Chesapeake grew from direct accounts of indigenous murder to elaborate constructions of the missionaries' divine sacrifice. A seriation of details from the seven contemporary Jesuit sources...
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Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (3): 325–350.
Published: 01 July 2022
...David Tavárez Context This article presents a translation and analysis of the only extant formal confession of human sacrifice written in an Indigenous language in the colonial Americas. An analysis of this document, written in Northern Zapotec by the town officials of Yalalag in 1704, provides...
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Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (1): 1–35.
Published: 01 January 2011
... Sacrifice in the South Seas [Berkeley, CA, 2005]). By using food to ground the face-to-face encounters between native and newcomer and by placing indigenous understandings of encounter at the center of the story, this article seeks to describe some of the specific mechanisms, material and rhetorical...
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Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (2): 229–250.
Published: 01 April 2008
... they eventually were resurrected. The Coatlicue statue may represent this resurrected creatrix, whose sacrifice gave us light and warmth, in the form of her personified skirt. Copyright 2008 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2008 Aguilera, Carmen 1985 Flora y fauna mexicana: Mitología y...
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Published: 01 October 2023
Figure 1. The human ixiptla of Huitzilopochtli bathed before the Panquetzaliztli sacrifice. The Florentine Codex (Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence), vol. 1, bk. 3, fol. 6r, World Digital Library, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667837/ .
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Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (4): 495–515.
Published: 01 October 2023
...Figure 1. The human ixiptla of Huitzilopochtli bathed before the Panquetzaliztli sacrifice. The Florentine Codex (Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence), vol. 1, bk. 3, fol. 6r, World Digital Library, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667837/ . ...
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (3): 597–599.
Published: 01 July 2014
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2 James Diego Vigil, Barrio Gangs: Street Life and Identity in Southern California
(Austin, TX, 1988).
DOI 10.1215/00141801-2681921
Inka Human Sacrifice and Mountain Worship: Strategies for Empire Uni-
fication. By Thomas Besom. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico
Press, 2013. xvii...
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Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (4): 713–724.
Published: 01 October 2003
...Helaine Silverman American Society for Ethnohistory 2003 Cook, Anita G. 2001 Huari D-Shaped Structures,Sacrificial Offerings, and Divine Rulership. In Ritual Sacrifice in Ancient Peru . Elizabeth P. Benson and Anita G. Cook, eds. Pp. 137 -63. Austin: University of Texas Press...
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (1): 149–179.
Published: 01 January 2014
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examples of vows in traditional cultures, a form of sacrifice to the gods?
The answer is provided by Nahuatl sources themselves. In the same
passage contained in the Florentine Codex, Sahagún lists the eating of earth
as one of the acts accompanying prayer (tlatlatlauhtiliztli) to the god...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (1): 1–27.
Published: 01 January 2016
... . Barrera Vásquez Alberto Rendón Silvia 1992 El Libro de los Libros del Chilam Balam . Mexico City : Fondo de la Cultura Económica . Boone Elizabeth H. , ed. 1984 Ritual Human Sacrifice in Mesoamerica . Washington, DC : Dumbarton Oaks . Breglia Lisa C. 2006 Monumental...
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Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (3): 555–558.
Published: 01 July 2001
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pansion, which was accompanied by large-scale ritual sacrifice of captured
people; and Nazi Germany, which disrupted Wolf’s own central European
childhood. In each chapter Wolf examines the role of ideology in consoli-
dating power and in defining characteristic (and historically controversial)
cultural...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (1): 29–46.
Published: 01 January 2016
... . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . 2003 Rabinal Achi: A Mayan Drama of War and Sacrifice . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Tokovinine Alexandre 2013 Place and Identity in Classic Maya Narratives . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . van Akkeren Ruud 1999...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (1): 219–220.
Published: 01 January 2019
... strategy, counseled kings, and served as a diplomat. He organized ceremonies of human sacrifice and oversaw major civic projects. Schroeder tells us that Tlacaelel was cunning, vigilant, eloquent, vainglorious, and wildly popular. He reportedly declined popular efforts to draft him to be king on several...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (4): 686–687.
Published: 01 October 2018
... can understand how the Spanish might naturally see pre-Columbian sculpture as Roman when they encountered a Mexican statuary tradition so similar to that of their own classical heritage. Fanciful European renditions of Aztec sacrifice, as explored by Cecilia Klein, were based more on European...
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